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I think the tension might be that looking back, we see many big (money making) operations that ran on far less than 64GB(1), but looking forward we can all think of fun hacks we can do on cheap and common 64GB machines.

It's another way of saying that yeah, that's old-world pricing.

(1 - I remember when friends told me they were real-time tracking all the telephone calling cards in a moderate sized country, with a Sun and 1G of memory.)




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